The Dillon tribune., 1887-09-16
4 FEW PUZZLES.

A FEW PULlhIo'
,.e cvR'ovsLy ADDRESSED .':@ xosx LET
ess 'sss thai THAT COME TO NE" YORK;
MAN. and His Perplexi"s
5he - = correcting the nlu"ders OF
"orA . oront or Careless People in
,''1 ~ part. of tho World
!. New York postoffice there IS an
In 1ns ,-hcsc name is Stone. but VINO IS
bploy,e1 "nu ,.nown as the Blind Man. He
Fneral. nod n to that title for thirty-onc
ah,"tih ,,,t his eyesight is as keen Us o
cons on Vision and partly because OF the
8 vt,he aptitude he has developed Tor
rlalha,,c : .;n- hieroglyphical directions on
e'plelhht ,hat he has been given the title.
sls s, n,ore correctly expressed, would
en ,he Man Who Deciphers Blind Di-
lions ~ p,,nd Man has now
MA work Of the bAnu Man Aas now
inc w. W large that half dozen assist
eNu y. 4 kept busy poring over directories
-, -, M Principal cities in this country
A. r.rone ~, Lists Of firms, individuals
, e ..reets are also looked through.
y have accumulated during a third
s' cantury. ~ but the directories are
a. old as the government is too
sui nr;o,,s to provide new directories
u''us 'rennisition. The "blind depart
'. ". received in one day flfty-four reg.
,sd letters which the regular clerks
ii do nothing with.
A DIG DAYS WORK.
No Hind man and his assistants have
;;ed ont 2, 500 blind directions in ordi-
letters in one day. Those that prove
;c;nrerable are sent to the dead letter
- At Washington. Most of the puz-
come from abroad, but bankers and
,n in New York and other large cities,
dsnt Postmaster Gaylor says, are the
frequent sinners. Hundreds of
rs come from Brooklyn every day to
York that are intended for Brooklyn
Mes but only New York has been
Men under the names on tho face Of
envelopes. Bank people are some-
IS very careless writers, and their let.
70 astray often because the direction
like something for which it is not
[pded Not long ago, q letter sent by
buntry bank to a city bank, and con-
kng SO, 900, did not turn up. It was
eted ~. R. Perkins, Cashier, N. Y"
Mas sought in vain for many days,
at last Mr.. Gaylor, in looking closely
be writing Of the cashier that directed
missing letter, surmised that his
shier' might have been mistaken for
kkl, and sure enough upon writing
be Catskill postoffice that proved to be
case, for the $4,000 letter was lying
be pigeon hole of that office awaiting
mother letter had such O clumsily
ten Yonkers upon its faco that it did
reach that city, only fourteen miles
y, until it had been to Turkey and
Another instance of careless writ
that made much amusement for an
rested English noblcman was on q
flntendeu for j. Smith, Dcs Moines,
The letters were run together so
|usly that they were supposed to read:
honicos, Town. It was sent to tho |
restaurateur, and remained with
I'LL Delnlonico sent it back with tho
aik that ]. Smith did not board with
SOME FOREIGN LETTERS.
hyorite style Of directing with foreign-
eens to be Of this order:
solomon, merchant tailor, clothes
|nea' repaired and altered, 123 Maison
Amerlka.' Another read: "Herrn
se Wolf, bought of James Kreink,
eF IN staple and fancy groceries, fruits.
Fao!es' oysters in season, No. 1,O15
! Seventeenth ST., cor. Randolph. !"
= are copied from billheads, and give
\ EEs9aing except the most essential point
y the name of the place.
|esy few know in how many vays
|NyNanla can be spelled. Here are a
speelMens: Pcnnavainei, Pencilyania,
.ena, pensylviannia, Pcnselmein,
|Ip,aaia, pa:, pennalsevcna, Pannsyliya-
fennsllvaia, Rcnsclwanna.
w. ~. are nc few occasional spellings: Bii-
k'in.o tr oceah Beach, N. j.; Minasetta
sauAesota' Paceyck for Passaic, New
~ New Cert and New Gercy for
for Syracuse. o' ot'
(c,ss seaope sa,1 mas this: II shall ask you
L s1se usn send back the letters I received
k,,a, n ava u!. ~ nome and which don't got"
| Ill ,",, ",i'es: II cfa too little English
Ia ls.,.s s'u what l mean. Have | sent
f,s,e. e. VI SWISS packet to Mr.. by
|rj1 ,. ~, ol o the {. S. in Jarscy City.
ey,mn' ~, h'loathpiece be with YOU"
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